Tag: Zigbee

  • Home Assistant and air quality – Ikea Vindstyrka

    Home Assistant and air quality – Ikea Vindstyrka

    Home Assistant and air quality – Ikea Vindstyrka The problem I’d like to monitor air quality in my kitchen/dining room to ventilate the rooms more frequently. Sometimes I simply forget to open windows. But again, there is no problem really. I just like to play with IoT gadgets and spend money on something else than…

  • The state of my Home Assistant in 2024

    The state of my Home Assistant in 2024

    The state of my Home Assistant in 2024 Update (3. 12. 2024) – Misc integrations, Addons and HACS added. My #homeautomation journey started 4 yrs ago (2020) when I bought 1 Aqara #zigbee hub, 1 room temp. sensor and 1 smart socket (for controling the heating of the office). I started with Aqara app. with…

  • Detecting movement in Home Assistant using Ikea Vallhorn sensor

    Detecting movement in Home Assistant using Ikea Vallhorn sensor

    I’ve bought some #Ikea #Vallhorn motion sensors for 8€ a piece. (see info here) Pairing to the #Zigbee network in #HomeAssistant and #Zigbee2MQTT was somehow difficult, which is not usual for Zigbee devices (at least according to my limited experiences with them). Nevertheless, I succeeded in pairing them. Unsuccessful attempts Firstly I tried to pair…